[ 283] National Iudgements call for National Repentance.
SUppose that the Sea should break forth in this Land (as such a thing might soon come to passe,* 1.1 were not the waters thereof countermanded by God's Pre∣rogative Royal) it is not the endeavour of a private man can stop it. What if he goes with a Faggot on his back, and a Mattock on his shoulder, and a spade in his hand, his desire is more commendable then his discretion, it being more likely the Sea should swallow him, then he stop the mouth of it; No, the whole Country must come in, Children must bring earth in their hats, Woemen in their aprons, Men with Hand-barrows, Wheel-barrows, Carts, Carrs, Wains, Waggons, all must work, lest all be destroyed; So when a general deluge, and inundation of God's anger seizeth upon a whole Kingdom, when he breaks in upon a Nation like the breaking forth of waters,* 1.2 it cannot be stop'd by the private endeavours of some few, but it must be an universal work, by a general Repe••tance, all must raise banks to bound it, till this be done, no hope of Peace, no hope of Reconcilement at all.